She wanted to make a void elf character on my account. I can’t remember what chores I was doing at the time at this point, but I went ahead and said sure, go ahead.
Newbie then joined her, so we had small siblings partying up out in the world. I believe Superman and maybe Little Miss were also playing, but having these two young future gamers sitting side-by-side was the important shot for me.
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Welp, thanks for making me feel old…I started playing Civ from Civ II with a demo.
Sometimes seeing how fast I could “beat” the demo (by discovering gunpowder) and sometimes seeing how long I could avoid beating it (by avoiding gunpowder at all costs). Alpha Centauri, a spin-off game, saw a full play-through the night TJ was born because Redflare was in the hospital in a shared room so I couldn’t stay over and be with them.
Too excited to sleep, I spent the whole night from turn 1 to victory playing that game, waiting until visiting hours were available so I could go see them again. Through the years, Civilization games are my default go-to when I’m pinned down holding a sleeping baby. From TJ and Little Miss to Fireball and Potato.
I believe I held Superman while playing Civ IV, for example with Newbie likely sleeping with Civ V and Thunderer while playing “Beyond Earth” (another spin-off).
Hard to believe the game now celebrates its 30th anniversary.
So off we go now, for just… one… more… turn…
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I thought this time around I should just combine all of the videos into one, so please excuse the jarring transitions, but with it being dark and the clips short, I didn’t really want to edit in transitions and rob the combo video of their joy.
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While we waited for it to get darker, naturally that’s the perfect time to break out the snap poppers.
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Clearly they weren’t doing any hefty swimming if Little Miss was comfortable keeping her glasses on while romping in the lake, but reglardless they were all having a blast out there.
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Challenges were made.
The boys won and the birthday boy was quite triumphant.
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As is traditional at this point Superman likes to go swimming on or around his birthday.
This year we were lucky enough to head to a small lake nearby that nobody else was using.
It let everybody swim in peace.
We were the only ones partaking of it.
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I can’t remember exactly what we were doing back in mid June that inspired Thunderer to pass out at RedFlare’s desk, but there she is, snoozing away cutely.
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Is this probably the proper way to use this or spell it? No. Do I care? No. Thunderer is getting snuggled by Thundercat so of course I’m going to capture this moment and post it to a Caturday.
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I’m pretty sure this picture was taken on Mother’s Day and so there’s likely a ‘sons’ picture somewhere. This one came from RedFlare’s phone so maybe it’s just a matter of me not being sent it yet.
So the picture is a bit late, but at least we can admire them all together here and hope that in ten years they’ll gather and awkwardly recreate this one together.
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